Increasing temperatures induced by climate change will have consequences on the labor market. Especially in industries with high exposure to heat, high temperatures may result in a reduction in labor supply (due to fewer ...
Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2022
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The term "emotional labor" is applied to an array of home-based activities—from keeping mental to-do lists, to remembering to call your in-laws on their birthdays. Some advocate the need to teach boys emotional labor, or ...
Social Sciences
Jul 11, 2022
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Relying on headhunters to fill job vacancies can drive up voluntary turnover, as new research has found that they typically recruit the employees they successfully placed before for their next job.
Economics & Business
Jul 8, 2022
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There's a worker shortage in the United States. As the country recovers from the pandemic, companies are trying to bring their employees back into the workplace but are finding that many of those employees are quitting—a ...
Economics & Business
Jul 5, 2022
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Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper training or opportunity to build skills for careers after release, according to a comprehensive ...
Social Sciences
Jun 17, 2022
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In Sweden, a study that sent fictitious applications in response to real housing ads has found that male applicants with foreign-sounding names received fewer callbacks than male applicants with a name that signals Swedish ...
Social Sciences
Jun 8, 2022
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There are many reasons to employ people living with intellectual disability. Most obvious is that it's the right thing to do—it helps promote social justice, diversity, corporate social responsibility, and equal opportunity.
Social Sciences
May 25, 2022
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As I've been organizing this year's International Association of Time Use Research (IATUR) conference in Montréal, I've been asked: What do you mean by time use research?
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2022
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A review of scientific literature investigating the impact of economic crises on suicide has been carried out through a project funded by Region Stockholm. Most of the included studies show a risk of an increase in suicide ...
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2022
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A new study finds companies that are more aggressive in their tax planning tend to do a worse job of managing their workforce. Specifically, these companies were more likely to be "underemployed," meaning they hadn't hired ...
Economics & Business
Apr 7, 2022
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